Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment Officer’s Blue Cloth Helmet c. 1881-1901, the skull complete with all gilt metal fittings, very fine frontal plate of crowned star pattern with laurel and Garter overlays, in the centre on a ground of black velvet a scroll ‘Quo Fas Et Gloria Ducunt’ the White Horse of Kent with scroll ‘Invicta’, title scroll below ‘The Royal West Kent Regiment’, buff leather sweatband with crimson silk lining and maker’s stamp ‘Hawkes & Co., London’, the plate not original to the helmet. Together with a japanned metal carrying tin, a poorly repaired moth hole to the front peak, the spike is araldited to the top of the quadrant otherwise good sound condition £300-£400